How To Install capstats on CentOS 8

capstats is A command-line tool collecting packet statistics

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstats on CentOS 8.

What is capstats

capstats is a small tool to collect statistics on the current load of a network interface. It reports statistics per time interval and/or for the tool’s total run-time.

We can use yum or dnf to install capstats on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install capstats.

Install capstats on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install capstats using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install capstats

Install capstats on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install capstats using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install capstats

How To Uninstall capstats on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the capstats package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove capstats

capstats Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/capstats
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/05af0e14819ef6a23783e4eb9e86ff9339c9be
/usr/share/doc/capstats
/usr/share/doc/capstats/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/capstats/README
/usr/share/licenses/capstats
/usr/share/licenses/capstats/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstats on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.